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...strength of “Mean Free Path” lies in its air of intimacy. The subjects of the poems range widely from the most quotidian matters??—the act of looking up from reading a book—to the gravest ones—the death of a friend. By including the trivial alongside the serious, Lerner creates the illusion of conversation with a close friend. He writes, “I want this to be... a little path / For Ari... That’s why I speak / In a voice so soft...
Matthew said D’Asaro has more “happy energy” than anyone else in the family, adding that this “excess of enthusiasm” is a response to “living with three other people discussing technical matters?? all the time...
...Fiction,” meaning books of the Adiga-Desai stamp. (A strain of nationalism too is on display: Books by South Asian authors on non-South Asian topics, or non-South Asians on South Asia, find no place on the latter shelf.) A book that “matters?? enough to merit national pride often connotes a thick tome of realism—one that attempts to cram between its two covers either all the dramas of family life or an entire sordid cityscape.In practice, this drive toward realism prompts writers to turn...
...People of good faith react”, was Waldron’s response. “You must expect some disagreement when talking about inherently controversial matters?...
...studies, Daniel L. Smail, suggesting that it will be the work of the last two years, culminating next fall, that will be of most consequence for the new curriculum, and not its theoretical conception. “If you take my view, it’s the practice that matters??not the legislation,” Smail says. “Curricular reforms are never going to create happy faculty or happy students, but we’ll find a way to make it work.” Other faculty members are similarly pragmatic. The next three...